the Dry tie fs of the Year 1788 . ^9 
jth, 8th, loth, nth, 12th, 13th, and 17th of March, and 
on none of thofe days at noon, fo that there never were 
twenty- four hours together fucceffive froft ; therefore vegeta- 
tion was never entirely at a ftand. In fummer it did not rife 
to 80 degrees, except on 
Deg. 
May 
26 
80 
✓ 
27 
8l 
28 
8l 
June 
18 
83 with 
thunder and rain : then cool for $ 
27 
80 
week* 
July 
1 1 
80 
1 
1Z 
82 
Auguft 
4 
81 ; the 
reft of the time exceedingly tern- 
perate. 
Now, the rain that fell on February was towards the end of 
the month ; which, together with that which fell in March, 
brought up the fpring corn, gave an early firft crop of hay to 
the large towns, and covered the meadows and paftures in the 
country ; that they were not fo entirely dried up through the 
defied of April, as to prevent the rain, which fell plentifully 
on the 29th of May, fucceeded by more in June, giving a 
fecond crop to the former fituations, and a firft, though late 
one, to the latter : and as fructification chiefly depends on 
rain falling at the latter end of the feafon of flowering, this 
rain fet the bloffoms of wheat, and of the ufeful fruit-trees ; 
as the great rains in Auguft fwelled the kernel, filled, as they 
term it, the buftiel, and gave an opportunity for a fecond crop 
of turneps that proved more vigorous than the firft. 
